Hi there!
I unpacked our minimal release image and ran an xdiskusage on it, mostly to see what we're shipping -- and I was surprised to see that a fourth of the image is actually apt package caches and lists. Can we put into the image generation script something to strip them out before generating the image?
The untarring also suggests a number of places where we could further trim the image, some of which are probably pretty hard to do:
* stripping /usr/share/doc out (but everybody knew that) * dropping charmaps, zones and locale info that will never really be used * stripping out modules for devices that won't ever be on this ARM device * stripping out firmware for peripherals that won't ever be on this ARM device
I've included the xdiskusage output so you can see what I mean. And good job on the release!
